World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov lost the first game to IBM-developed supercomputer Deep Blue. This defining moment in ...

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This week marks 29 years since an epic man versus machine battle. It's when IBM's supercomputer, Deep Blue, beat Garry ...

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Frontier, the second fastest supercomputer in the world, used dark matter and the movement of gas and plasma rather than just ...

Engineers in Japan have switched on the world's first hybrid quantum supercomputer. The 20-qubit quantum computer, called ...

The world's fastest supercomputer 'El Capitan' can reach a peak performance of 2.746 exaFLOPS, making it the planet's third ...

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Enormous dimensions, complicated military calculations, and thousands of vacuum tubes—this was the early supercomputer.

El Capitan reaches 2.746 exaFLOPS, making it the fastest supercomputer It will be used for classified U.S. nuclear security research Built at LLNL, it replaces the Sierra supercomputer ...